Church News

Pigeon Fork Baptist Church will host a community “Bridge” event at the Waddy Ruritan Club on Friday, Aug. 4, from 7 to 9 pm.

Come hear gospel and country groups sing, grab a hot dog or some popcorn, try out the inflatable obstacle course, play washers, corn toss, and ladder toss, or just enjoy fellowship with your neighbors, organizers said in a news release.

On Saturday, Aug. 5, Revival will begin at 7 p.m., led by Ron Aldridge, following by a “pizza pig-out.”

Lawrenceburg United Pentecostal Church will hold its vacation Bible school July 24-28, the church announced.The school will be from 6 to 8 p.m. each day.Snacks will be provided and there will be crafts for those who attend.The name is the camp is “Camp Courage.

If you have read this article with any frequency, you probably know that I love to refer to Ephesians, chapter 2 in the Bible. For me, it simply outlines man’s relation to God. It begins, “You were dead in your trespasses and sins, in which you once walked in the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now is at work in the sons of disobedience, among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of our body and mind, and were by nature children of wrath like the rest of mankind.”

I wish to express my gratitude for the opportunity that I have to submit religious articles to The Anderson News.

I am not a preacher in the traditional sense. I have never had a church, and I have not been to a seminary or religious school. I have had an opportunity to minister to hurting men and women in the jail system and drug rehab program. I do strive to be a student of the Bible, and I am a sinner saved by grace.

Most Christians agree that we are not justified in Christ Jesus by anything that we have done. We are not called based on the standard of holiness we have attained.

But questions arise in our hearts. Do I do enough? Do I pray enough? Do I serve others enough? Do I hate sin enough? Do I have the right theological conviction? Has Christ done enough in me so that I may attain Heaven?

A couple of weeks ago, I made a comment in this column around the graduating students at Notre Dame turning their backs on Vice President Mike Pence as he was speaking about civility, and political correctness at their graduation exercises.

I am sure that you know about the shooting of well-known lawmaker Steve Scalise while he was at practice for a charity baseball game.

These law makers were targeted by James Hodgkinson, allegedly because they are Republicans.

If you keep up with the news, you would most likely know about Vice President Mike Pence’s speaking at the Notre Dame Commencement exercise for graduating seniors a couple of weeks back.

Pence’s speech was filled with platitudes, about bright dream-filled futures and with a rebuke of political correctness. He said, “These all too common practices, (political correctness) are destructive of learning and the pursuit of knowledge, and they are wholly outside of the American tradition.”